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NDLEA nabs Malaysian returnee with drugs hidden in music speakers

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 41-year-old ex-convict and Malaysian returnee, Ndubuisi Udatu, with two music speakers used to conceal four large parcels of methamphetamine weighing 2.700kilograms for distribution in Yola and Mubi, Adamawa state, and across the border into Cameroon.

Ndubuisi was arrested inside a commercial transport bus at an NDLEA checkpoint at Namtari along Ngurore -Yola road in Adamawa State on Monday, April 7, 2025.

The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this via a statement on Sunday, April 30, said the Malaysian returnee was found with two new music speakers used to conceal four packages of methamphetamine and monetary exhibit of N22,300.

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Babafemi noted that the suspect claimed he returned to Nigeria to continue his illicit drug trade after serving out his jail term in Malaysia where he had been arrested, convicted, and sent to prison for drug trafficking offences.

Babafemi disclosed that the NDLEA officers in a joint border operation with Customs personnel at the Nigeria/Cameroon border, Mfum in Cross River State arrested a trans-border drug trafficker, 35-year-old Odoh Peter Ikechukwu, with 8,740 ampoules of assorted opioids, weighing 395kg.

They include 1,080 ampoules of fentanyl injection, 2,160 ampoules of morphine sulphate injection, 3,010 ampoules of phenobarbital sulphate injection, 2,160 ampoules of pethidine injection, and 330 ampoules of midazolam injection.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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